Stephen Frisby

Stephen Frisby is an Associate Professor of Law at Faulkner University’s Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Alabama, where he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Appellate Advocacy. He also teaches seminar classes on the death penalty and the judicial process. Stephen also lectures in Faulkner University’s Undergraduate Criminal Justice and Legal Studies Departments.

Before joining the faculty at Faulkner Law in 2024, Stephen served as a Senior Staff Attorney on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals where he reviewed hundreds of criminal appeals, focusing primarily on capital murder convictions and death sentences.

Before that, Stephen served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Capital Litigation Division of the Alabama Attorney General’s Office. As an Assistant Attorney General, Stephen represented the State in death penalty cases from direct appeal through execution. Stephen wrote and filed briefs in Alabama’s appellate courts as well as in the Supreme Court of the United States and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Stephen also represented the State of Alabama in state postconviction proceedings, federal habeas proceedings, and § 1983 method-of-execution claims.

Stephen began his career in 2009 as a Deputy District Attorney in Montgomery County, Alabama. Stephen participated in numerous felony jury trials as either lead or co-counsel. Those trials ranged in severity from unlawful possession of marijuana to capital murder. Stephen also appeared on behalf of the State in countless preliminary hearings, bond-reduction hearings, and criminal-felony dockets and participated in several pretrial-motion hearings, guilty-plea proceedings, and sentencing hearings. Stephen also served as the Deputy District Attorney over the Montgomery County Drug Court Program.